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Reading is Transcendental October 05, 2024 ➽ March 01, 2026
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Reading is Transcendental October 05, 2024 ➽ March 01, 2026

Reading is Transcendental

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Produced specifically for ICA LA as part of the 2024 Scientia Sexualis exhibition, artist Chris E. Vargas and his “imaginary” Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art (MOTHA) take over the museum bathrooms. Reading is Transcendental transforms what is often an overdetermined site of violent surveillance and legislative transphobia into an intergenerational reading room. The wallpaper represents the real-life bookshelves of Vargas’s community, including fiction, sexology, self-help, biography, manifesto, and theory. The titles convey both the wide radius of trans literature and the problem of categorization at large, nodding to the thorny task of unmaking a canon. Honoring MOTHA’s tactical and parasitic relation to art institutions, this temporary installation asks if it is possible to compile a visual history of an identity category for which language is relative, contested, and evolving. While you may not be able to take a book off this shelf, we hope you leave with a long list of titles to take to your local independent bookstore.

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Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects Edited by David Evans Frantz, Christina Linden, and Chris E. Vargas
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468 Sandra Vásquez de la Horra: The Awake Volcanoes 2025-10-11 2026-03-01 1:47pm Apr 14, 2025 Page
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336 Will Rawls: [siccer] 2025-04-05 2025-08-31
Icala 2025 04 09 034
9:36am May 08, 2025 Page
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369 Jackie Castillo: Through the Descent, Like the Return 2025-04-05 2025-08-31
Icala 2025 04 09 200
12:46pm Apr 25, 2025 Page
Active Published
501 J&L Books: Reading Room 2025-04-05 2025-08-31
J+l books courtesy jeff mclane installation view 01
5:27pm May 09, 2025 Page
Active Published
402 An Incessant Unknowability: An Archive of Protest Inspired Typography and Its Open Source Uses 2024-12-04 2025-03-02
Genderfail bookshelf residency image 1
1:18pm Apr 23, 2025 Page
Active Published
303 Agency of Assets x SUAY
Fix the Future
2024-10-05 2024-11-17
Icala 2024 10 11 117
3:51pm Oct 18, 2024 Page
Active Published
137 Scientia Sexualis 2024-10-05 2025-03-02
Icala 2024 10 29 001
1:52pm Apr 02, 2025 Page
Active Published
270 Demian DinéYazhi' 2024-10-05 2025-08-24
Poz 1492 (2019)
3:08pm Oct 16, 2024 Page
Active Pageless
435 Reading is Transcendental 2024-10-05 2026-03-01 3:19pm Mar 04, 2025 Page
Active Published
237 Kathryn Andrews 2024-09-07 2024-11-17
K andrews dsf9640 corrected hires
1:15pm Oct 28, 2024 Page
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204 Returning 2024-06-05 2024-07-28
Returning_Exhibition Image__01.JPG
1:51pm Mar 03, 2025 Page
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171 Ooga Boogie, cha cha cha! 2024-04-10 2024-06-02
Ooga Boogie, cha cha cha!_Exhibition Image_1.JPG
4:44pm Jul 03, 2024 Page
Active Published
138 Kima Ten Years 2024-02-10 2024-04-07
Ten years exhibition image 1
4:04pm Jul 03, 2024 Page
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133 Scratching at the Moon 2024-02-10 2024-07-28
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4:36pm Dec 04, 2024 Page
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136 Foreign Investments (Bottarga in Costa Mesa) 2024-02-10 2024-07-28
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5:11pm Jul 30, 2024 Page
Active Published
132 Barbara T. Smith: Proof 2023-10-07 2024-01-14
Installation view, _Barbara T. Smith: Proof_, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 7, 2023–January 14, 2024. Photo: Jeff McLane/ICA LA.
9:33am Mar 05, 2025 Page
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134 Infinite Rehearsal with Chris Emile and No)one. Art House 2023-10-07 2024-01-14
Icala(10 10) 055
3:47pm Nov 22, 2023 Page
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135 Data (beta): the labor of looking 2023-10-07 2024-01-14
Icala(10 10) 061
2:51pm Aug 12, 2024 Page
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129 Trương Công Tùng 2023-06-10 2023-09-10
Tct 1
1:34pm Sep 13, 2023 Page
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130 Carmen Argote: I won’t abandon you, I see you, we are safe 2023-06-10 2023-09-10
Icala 2023 06 12 042
2:40pm Aug 17, 2023 Page
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131 Alberta Whittle: between a whisper and a cry 2023-06-10 2023-09-10
Aw 1
10:44am Jul 29, 2023 Page
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126 Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency 2023-02-11 2023-05-14
Icala 2023 02 14 039
10:40am May 09, 2023 Page
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127 Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork 2023-02-11 2023-05-14
Icala 001
1:14pm May 04, 2023 Page
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128 Christine Sun Kim: Bounce Back 2023-02-11 2024-01-14
Icala 2023 02 14 001
11:42am Feb 19, 2025 Page
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91 Rebecca Morris: 2001–2022 2022-10-01 2023-01-15
Image of exhibition introduction text, Rebecca Morris painting hands in the background.
1:10pm Apr 01, 2024 Page
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